{"id":7292,"date":"2018-08-12T05:26:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T12:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7292"},"modified":"2018-08-15T17:21:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T00:21:20","slug":"7292","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/12\/7292\/","title":{"rendered":"The Consolation of Repetition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cSo we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sitting in my parents\u2019 house, surrounded by my dad\u2019s old college books and mine, I\u2019m struck by a certain melancholy\u2014a mix of memory, gratitude, and loss. As it happens, Margot just told me about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/insta_repeat\/\">Insta Repeat<\/a>, a feed that catalogs the repetitiousness of Instagram photography. This makes me think of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/03\/im-not-like-everybody-else-except-well\/\">vem\u00f6dalen<\/a>\u201d\u00a0(\u201cthe frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist\u201d)\u2014and just searching this blog for that term shows my current unoriginality in its use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/03\/endless-instagram-repetition-the-musical\/\">Endless Instagram repetition, the musical!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/25\/google-researchers-discover-time-lapses-by-data-mining-millions-of-photos\/\">Google researchers discover time lapses by data-mining millions of photos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/16\/camera-restricta-prevents-shooting-unoriginal-photos\/\">\u201cCamera Restricta\u201d prevents shooting unoriginal photos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/27\/membit-pokemon-go-for-your-memories\/\">Membit: \u201cPok\u00e9mon Go for your Memories\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/03\/im-not-like-everybody-else-except-well\/\">\u201cI\u2019m not like everybody else\u201d\u2014except, well\u2026<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ftDjebw8aA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ah well\u2014so it goes. Until next time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/NewImage-9.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8ftDjebw8aA\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past\u2026\u201d Sitting in my parents\u2019 house, surrounded by my dad\u2019s old college books and mine, I\u2019m struck by a certain melancholy\u2014a mix of memory, gratitude, and loss. As it happens, Margot just told me about Insta Repeat, a feed that catalogs the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7308,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions\/7308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}